A small country holds one of wine's deepest benches, home to the world's oldest regulated vineyard and hundreds of grapes grown nowhere else. Port opened the door, but the whole house rewards a look inside.

A microscopic insect once brought the wine world to the edge of ruin. The way growers answered still lives in the roots of nearly every vine on earth.

Exploring the regional identities that make the Loire one of France’s most varied wine-producing areas.

From its ancient Eurasian origins to vineyards across six continents, Vitis vinifera defines much of what we understand as wine.

For three centuries these were the most valuable and widely traded wines on earth, engineered to cross oceans that destroyed everything else. The category never truly disappeared, and it is quietly finding its way back.

In a remote fold of Catalan mountains, monks planted vines, blight and poverty emptied the valleys, and a handful of outsiders rebuilt one of Europe's great red wines within a single generation. The soil did the rest.

For most of history, the world's greatest wines were sweet, and dry wine was the hard thing to make. The bottle you now take for granted is the product of a quiet revolution in science and taste.

No white grape wears more disguises. From bone-dry and mineral to lusciously sweet to sparkling, Chenin Blanc may be the most versatile fine wine in the world, and one of the most rewarding at the table.

The same valley that once marked the end of a great American migration has become an unlikely promised land for one of the world's most demanding grapes. In a single generation, Oregon turned a reckless bet on Pinot Noir into a wine region spoken of alongside Burgundy.